This is an interesting one.
How do you improve on what most describe as perfection? No, not my vehicle styling, that's already at the peak... I'm referring to the formidable Volkswagen DSG box. The slick, reliable, fun, lazy drivers answer to a manual, but without the actual effort of moving your left arm, or your left foot, or is it right foot?? One forgets its been so long. Either way, its a great gearbox that Volkswagen perfected years ago. Or at least until you start tinkering outside VW's stock parameters and jamming an amazing Revo map under the hood of my already fast 204, but that's another review altogether (found here actually Revo Review in more detail. ) The Revo seemed to slightly outperform the gearbox in a couple of small ways. Nothing major, a very slight clutch slip in 2nd and 3rd when driving enthusiastically, and the need for more driver input with the paddles, which no respectable automatic owner has the time to do. A quick back and forth to Oli over WhatsApp and he assured me I needed a TVS box mapping. I set to my research and discovered a whole new world of underground chatter about the little known DSG mapping, with all the usual mixed opinions, but I figured what can I loose, other than a tank of fuel and a day off work, so back down to Bognor I shot.
I'm going to give an easy first impression of my drive home from Bognor today.
You know in your head when you want a box to change gear, but annoyingly it doesn't and you subconsciously fettle the throttle to encourage it to change, or taps fully open, you have the luxury of paddles to take the control. Either way, if that's what you are doing without even realising, you may need to think hard about a box map. Think peak power, bang, next gear, peak power bang and so on. Not rev rev rev, scream then bang change gear. That's the hardest part to adapt to. I'm so used to my van screaming through the rev range, passing peak and then changing gear, that the box doing it at the perfect time is not easy to grasp. Also, the correct gear is already selected when you kick down, not the top end of the rev range in the totally incorrect gear, sending valves bouncing out the bonnet. Power at your feet in exactly the right place at exactly the right moment. Now that's some kind of Witch craft that I don't understand, but it was a small fee to get right, unless you get both the engine and box mapped at the same time, and then its not so small, but boy is it worth it.
Perfection perfected.
Thank you @BognorMotors for the usual fun today. Thank you for the blast in the stunning Pure Grey 6.1 and thank you for being such a great bloke.
How do you improve on what most describe as perfection? No, not my vehicle styling, that's already at the peak... I'm referring to the formidable Volkswagen DSG box. The slick, reliable, fun, lazy drivers answer to a manual, but without the actual effort of moving your left arm, or your left foot, or is it right foot?? One forgets its been so long. Either way, its a great gearbox that Volkswagen perfected years ago. Or at least until you start tinkering outside VW's stock parameters and jamming an amazing Revo map under the hood of my already fast 204, but that's another review altogether (found here actually Revo Review in more detail. ) The Revo seemed to slightly outperform the gearbox in a couple of small ways. Nothing major, a very slight clutch slip in 2nd and 3rd when driving enthusiastically, and the need for more driver input with the paddles, which no respectable automatic owner has the time to do. A quick back and forth to Oli over WhatsApp and he assured me I needed a TVS box mapping. I set to my research and discovered a whole new world of underground chatter about the little known DSG mapping, with all the usual mixed opinions, but I figured what can I loose, other than a tank of fuel and a day off work, so back down to Bognor I shot.
I'm going to give an easy first impression of my drive home from Bognor today.
You know in your head when you want a box to change gear, but annoyingly it doesn't and you subconsciously fettle the throttle to encourage it to change, or taps fully open, you have the luxury of paddles to take the control. Either way, if that's what you are doing without even realising, you may need to think hard about a box map. Think peak power, bang, next gear, peak power bang and so on. Not rev rev rev, scream then bang change gear. That's the hardest part to adapt to. I'm so used to my van screaming through the rev range, passing peak and then changing gear, that the box doing it at the perfect time is not easy to grasp. Also, the correct gear is already selected when you kick down, not the top end of the rev range in the totally incorrect gear, sending valves bouncing out the bonnet. Power at your feet in exactly the right place at exactly the right moment. Now that's some kind of Witch craft that I don't understand, but it was a small fee to get right, unless you get both the engine and box mapped at the same time, and then its not so small, but boy is it worth it.
Perfection perfected.
Thank you @BognorMotors for the usual fun today. Thank you for the blast in the stunning Pure Grey 6.1 and thank you for being such a great bloke.
and can put this all in writing at some point
